Sink scoop or shovel



I s. BERGER. SINK SCOOP OR SHOVEL.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. I'll I9l9.

,1',353,307. PatentedSept. 21,1920.

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SINK SCOOP OR SHOVEL.

Application filed December 11, 1919. Serial No. 344,090.

- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL BERGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sink Scoops or Shovels; and I do hereby declare the folfull, clear, and exact descripo'thers skilled tains to make being had to and to characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates, provements in that class of the art pertaining to household articles; and,'the presen t invention has reference, more particularly, to a novel kitchen implement, in the form of a sink-scoop or shovel which serves the purposes of scooping up the refuse-matter which usually collects in the sink, the implein the art to which it apperand use the same, reference ment serving at the same time as a draining I that the scoop-body and implement, being provided with which readily permits the refuse-liquor and water usually scooped up with the instru-- ment when used, to drain from the scoop, so

drained refuse-matter can be carried to the garbage-receptacle, without any objectionable matter dripping from the scoop upon the kitchen-floor.

The present invention, therefore, has for its principal objects to provide a novel and simply constructed kitchen-utensil, inv the form of a sink-scoop or shovel, in which the its handle are made in one piece, so as to avoid the use of rivets-or other means for securing the handle to said body, and, furthermore, to provide the scoop-body with suitably arranged means which serves to readily convey the refuse liquor and water, which may be scooped up, from said body so that only solid refusematter will remain upon the scoop-body, and that scoope -up matter canbe carried from the sink to the garbage-receptacle, without and possibility of liquid refusematter dripping from the implement .upon

means the floor.

The invention has for its further object to provide the lower surface or base of the scoop-body with depending supporting members, usually in the form of supporting ribs, whereby the main body-portions of the scoop-member, when the scoop is placed upon a surface for drainage, are raised Specification of Letters Patent.

tlon of the invention, such as will enable the accompanying drawings,

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above such surface,

to provide a suitable space for the reception of the refuse-liquor or water flowing from theperforated basemember, and for the passage of such liquor or water from beneath the scoop-body or member and resulting in the perfect and quick drainage of the solid refuse-matter.

Other objects of the present invention description of the pres--.

shovel hereinafter set forth; and, the said invention consists, furthermore, in the novel arrangements and combinations of the various devices ,and parts, aswell as in the de tails of the construction of the said parts, all of which will be more fully described in the following specification, and then finally embodied in the clauses of the claim which are appended and which form an essential part of the said specification.

he invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a top or plan view of a sinkscoop or shovel, showing one embodiment of the principles of the present invention; and F i 2 is a side elevation of the same.

ig. 3 is a rear end view of the said scoop or shovel, looking in the direction of the arrow X in said Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a trans-' verse vertical sectional representation of the said scoop or shovel, said section being taken on line 44 in said Fig. 1, also looking in the direction of said arrow X.

Similar characters of reference are employed in the said above described views, to indicate corresponding parts. 7

Referring now to the said drawings, the reference-character 1 indicates a complete sink-scoop or shovel made according to the principles of the present invention, the same comprising a main body or scoop-member 2 wardly to form a handle 7, As shown, the i said main body or scoop-member 2 is provided at its longitudinally extending marginal edge-portions with upwardly extending side-flanges 8, the connecting spaces between said side-flanges 8 and said main body 2 being formed in a manner, so as to provide the upper surface of the said main body'2, contiguous with the said side-flanges 8, with marginal depressions or grooves, as 9, which provide suitable draining channels or ducts, as will be clearly evident. These parts of the said main body or scoop-member 2, as will be seen from an inspection of Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings,'provide suitable downwardly extending supporting elements or ribs, as 10, which while providing reinforcing members, also produce suitable supporting members acting to slightly raise the lower surface of the main body or member 2, when the scoop is placed in the sink or upon a drain-board, above the surface of the said sink or drain-board, as will be clearly evident. The said main body or member 2 may also be provided, if desired, with suitably placed drip-openings or perforations 11. As shown, the member 6 and handle 7 are preferably provided with a marginal rib-like portions 13 thereof extending over the part 5 and for a distance upon the upper surface of the said main body or member 2, so as to provide the said channels or grooves 9 with proper discharge-ducts 14 at the rear ends of the respective channels or grooves 9, as will be more clearl understood from an inspection of said Fig. 1 of the drawings. If desired, the scoop or-shovel may be provided with an upwardly projecting reinforcing rib 15 which extends longitudinal and centrally along the main body-member 2, the members 5 and 6, and also along the handle 7. At its end-portion the said handle 7 may be provided with a perforation 16 for the suspenlsion of the implement from a hook or nai From the foregoing description it will be clearly seen, that I have produced a neat and simple construction of sink-scoop or shovel, which is easily made in a single plece, and which, when used for scooping up any refuse-matter, such as usually lodges 1n a s1nk, can be used, by placing the same by means of its supporting ribs '10 upon the flat sink-surface or upon the usual drainboard, as a draining means,the refuse-liquor or water that may be scooped up, draining off along the channels or ducts 9, or through the perforations 11 in the elevated bodymember 2, or by means of both said'channels and perforations, as the case may be. Of course I am aware that the invention is susceptible to some changes in the construction of the implement, without departlng from the scope of the invention, as set forth in the foregoing specification. Hence,

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projection 12, the end I do not limit my present invention to the exact arrangement and combination of the various parts as described in the said specifinor do I confine myself to the exact details of the construction of the said parts, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

I claim 1. A scoop or shove specified, comprising a main body ing a scoop-member, and extending from said body, being provided in its upper surface with drainage-channels, said channels having rearwardly extending discharge-ends.

2. A scoop or shovel of the character specified, comprising a main body providing a scoop-member, a handle connected with and extending from said body, said body being provided in its uppersurface with drainage channels, and the said handle being provided upon its upper surface with a marginal rib having its respective free endportions terminating upon the upper surface of said body contiguous the respective channels.

3. A scoop or shovel of the character specified, comprising a main body having longitudinally extending and upwardly projecting marginal side-flanges, a handle connected with and extending from said body,

provida handle connected with said body said body being further provided in its upper surface with drainage-channels contiguous to said side-flanges said channels having rearwardly extending discharge-ends.

4. A scoop or shovel of the character specified, comprising a main body having longitudinally extending and upwardly projecting marginal side-flanges, a nected with and extending from said body,

. said body being further provided in its upper surface with drainage-channels, contiguo-us tosaid side-flanges, and the said handle being provided upon its upper surface with a marginal rib having its respective freeendportions terminating upon the upper surface of said body contiguous to the ends of the respective channels.

5. The herein-described sink-scoop or shovel comprising a'main gitudinally extending and upwardly projecting marginal side-flanges, a handle connected with and extending from said body, said body being further provided in its upof the character to the ends of g handle conbody having lonper surface with drainage-channels contiguous to said side-flanges, said channels having rearwardly extending dischargeends, and supporting ribs projecting from the lower surface of said body for elevating the latter above a supporting surface.

.6. The herein-described sink-scoop or shovel comprising a main body having longitudinally extending and upwardly proj ecting marginal side-flanges, a handle connected with and extending from said body,

said

body being further provided in its upper contiguous to the ends of the respective chan- 10 surface with drainage-channels contiguous nels. to said side-flanges, supporting ribs pro- In testimony, that I claim the invention jecting from the lower surface of said body set forth above I have hereunto set my hand for elevating the latter above a supporting this 20th day of N ovembe'r 1919.

surface, and the said handle being provided SAMUEL BERGER. upon its upper surface with a marginal rib Witnesses: having its respective free end-portions ter- FREDK. G. FRAENTZEL, minating upon the upper surface of said body BARBARA W. SU'J."1ERI4IIN. 

